I consult with my colleagues and non of us ever saw similar issue.
"Blinking" happend only once, or every time you are using SERP? I would like to ask you, if you can send us log file.
I would like to know what BackgroundHALShouldPause does, and how to use it. While it's listed in the HAL Primitives report, it is not used in source code and it doesn't appear in the LMS HAL...